envious - Story 45264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Congratulations, Sarah! So happy for you!" Chloe said, her voice a little too loud, a little too saccharine. She forced a smile as she clapped Sarah on the back. Sarah was ecstatic, beaming as she showed off her new volleyball team jersey.

Chloe forced herself to congratulate everyone, but each well-wish seemed to get more and more strained. The gym buzzed with excitement, the air thick with congratulations. Chloe hated every second of it. She couldn't meet anyone's eyes.

As she drove home, the radio blared a cheerful pop song. She switched it off. The silence was deafening, amplified by the emptiness in her heart. She couldn't bring herself to face her family. She wanted to be left alone, to stew in the resentment that burned like acid in her stomach.

Emotion: envious

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -0.65 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion envious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 envious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the envious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the envious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.550
`H`	0.431
`B`	0.406
`L`	0.403
`envy`	0.365

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.262
`мед`	-0.258
`再次`	-0.246
`own`	-0.239
`พร้อม`	-0.231